Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Alternative spellings: Phalium (Echinophoria), Semicassis (Echinophoria)
Synonyms: Bathygalea Woodring and Olsson 1957, Bathygalea (Miogalea) Woodring and Olsson 1957, Euspinacassis Finlay 1926, Mariacassia Petuch 1988, Mariacassis Petuch 1988, Miogalea Woodring and Olsson 1957, Shichiheia Hatai and Nisiyama 1949, Trachydolium Howe 1926
Parent taxon: Phaliinae according to A. G. Beu 2010
See also Beu 2005, Beu 2008, Beu et al. 1990, Durham 1944, Garvie 2013, Hickman 1980, Kanno 1973, Ladd 1977, Marasti 1973, Petuch 1988, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001 and Wilson 1993
Sister taxa: Kahua, Phalium, Semicassis
Subtaxa: Bathygalea (Bathygalea) Echinophoria bituberculosa Echinophoria caelatura Echinophoria carnosa Echinophoria coronadoi Echinophoria dalli Echinophoria etchuensis Echinophoria famulans Echinophoria fax Echinophoria hadra Echinophoria intermedium Echinophoria pilsbryi Echinophoria pollens Echinophoria trituberculata Echinophoria woodringi Echinophoria wyvillei Euspinacassis muricata
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Guam (1)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (7), Panama (3), Spain (4), Venezuela (2)
• Miocene of Chile (1), Colombia (3), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Germany (26), Grenada (6), Italy (2), Japan (2), New Zealand (10), Panama (19), United States (1: Maryland), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Denmark (4), Germany (1), Panama (4), United States (2: Mississippi, Washington)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1), United States (26: Oregon, Texas, Washington)
Total: 129 collections including 131 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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